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TIL that the only victim of the Titanic disaster from Monaco was officially declared dead in 2000.

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loZVG TIL the Nile river valley used to be a deep canyon system, up to 1.8 km deep where Cairo is today (the same depth as the Grand Canyon). It filled with sentiment 5 million years ago when the Mediterranean Sea refilled after a period of drying out.
gM8kA TIL an Alford Plea is a guilty plea from a defendant who claims innocence, but admits the evidence against them enough to prove guilt.
6EAWQ TIL claw machine crane games are illegal in Alberta Canada, unless the player is allowed to make repeated attempts (on a single credit) until he or she succeeds in winning a prize
ZKXo TIL There are over 190 million less women in the world because of sex-selective abortion and female infanticide
wLVvP TIL until the 1980s all freight trains in the USA and Canada were required to have a caboose with a crew. They were replaced by the "end-of-train device" which detects and reports any problems to the engineer, ending an era in railway history.